Quotes About Meaning

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

Meaningful work is within your grasp.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.

For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.

I think the thing is there's a work for every space, you always have to respond to a context, whether it be a physical context, or a political one, or a cultural one, whatever.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.